A Plain Township man wanted by federal agents, deputies and the Massillon Police department was arrested Friday in a northeast Canton home.

Brian J. Cricks, 33, of 4529 Roosevelt Ave. NE, was arrested at 2:30 p.m. in a home in the 1400 block of 21st Street NE by agents with the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force, Stark County Jail records said.

Cricks was being sought on warrants charging him with felony retaliation, driving while intoxicated and two counts of telecommunications harassment.

The task force featured him this week as one of their most wanted suspects.

Cricks is accused of sending numerous vulgar and threatening text messages and, told by law enforcement officers to stop, then threatened to harm a police officer physically. He is also accused of calling the emergency dispatch center and the police department, threatening the officer further, stating that he “had done nine years in prison and would not go back,” according to a news release from the U.S. Marshals Service.

Stark County court records show that he went to prison in 2000 for felonious assault, burglary, two counts of retaliation and three counts of felony intimidation of a crime victim or witness.